Athanassios G. Platias

Athanassios G. Platias is Professor of Strategy at the University of Piraeus. He is also director of the graduate program in International and European studies.

He received a degree in Public Law and Political Science (with excellence) from the Law Faculty of the University of Athens. He also received an M.A and a Ph.D in International Relations from the Department of Government at Cornell University (1986).

He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, a Research Fellow at the Peace Studies Program, Cornell University; MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at the Program for Science, Technology and International Security, MIT and the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Professor Platias is the author of numerous books and articles. He has written in five principal areas:

Grand Strategy

Geopolitics and Geoeconomics

International Security

Theory of International Relations

International Relations and Strategy in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War